Music and Time Annotation << Back Reading by G. Gould Preludes and Fugues C-dur and c-moll from Volume I of Bach Well-Tempered Clavier in the Aspect of the Problem of the Plaintext Yu.A. Monastyrshyna Mr. Gould’s interpretation of Preludes and Fugues C-dur and c-moll of Bach from Volume I of WTC are unusual even for the hearing of XXI century. In this work, an attempt to understand the true reasons for the interpretation of bold decisions. During the study, we will resort to the categories «self-developing text» and «open form». We spent the interpretative analysis of Bach’s works, placing them in a broad cultural «around space». As a result of bold metaphorical throws it is possible to see from a distance that cannot be detected, being close to the desired object. Keywords: self-developing text, open form, the phenomenon of plaintext, around space, metaphorical throws. Contacts: E-mail: monastyrshina2009@yandex.ru Pp. 16-22.